 One
of the things that we had to do fairly early was get some furniture for
our apartment. There were several reasons for this, despite having a 'furnished'
place. The first was that, while much of the basic stuff was there, we
still have a lot of empty room that can be used well. The second reason
is that, despite the school's best intention, much of the supplied things
were pretty ugly (think green, yellow, and brown squares on a couch to
get a picture in your heard). Third, after being exposed to Mumbai's humdidty
for much of the summer, the stuff stunk like mold. And fourth, everybody
else has such cool stuff we figured we'd better get some too.
So on the weekend after everyone got their
first paycheck, a couple of the administrators set up a trip to one of
the bazaars in town. We headed down to Chor Bazaar, which sells everything
under the sun, and were going to spend part of a morning heading up and
down Mutton Street, where many of the furniture dealers are. |
